Alan Gould (1) (1949–)
Autor de To the Burning City
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Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: Alan Gould 18/07/2010 photograph by Sue.
Series
Obras de Alan Gould
Tightrope walker 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Another English: Anglophone Poems from Around the World (Poets in the World) (2014) — Contribuidor — 10 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1949-03-22
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Australia
- Lugares de residencia
- London, England, UK
Germany
Singapore
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia - Educación
- Australian National University
- Ocupaciones
- nuclear physics technician
agricultural labourer - Premios y honores
- The Philip Hodgins Memorial Award for contribution to Australian Literature (1999)
Miembros
Reseñas
Premios
También Puede Gustarte
Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 25
- También por
- 2
- Miembros
- 115
- Popularidad
- #170,830
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 5
- ISBNs
- 42
- Idiomas
- 1
An award-winning poet, essayist and novelist, Gould (b.1949) was born in postwar England but his father's military career took the family to Northern Ireland, Germany and Singapore before migration to Australia in 1966. He is based in Canberra. His novels include:
To the Burning City explores the relationship between two half-brothers, Jeb and Len, prompting me to muse that while blended families are common now through divorce, even when divorce was uncommon in the postwar period, they must have been common enough when women widowed by war remarried. Yet even so, the relationship between step-siblings isn't common in the fiction I've read. To the Burning City shows how Len's father Flight Officer Crispin a.k.a. Charlie Hengelow — one of those who aimed the bombs at their targets — did not die in the war, but rather deserted his family to deal with his postwar inner demons. The novel explores how Jeb, who as a child hero-worshipped his older half-brother, struggled with these complex relationships in adulthood.
Being one of the fatherless, was what little Len feared when sent off to boarding school aged four...
Len prays for his father every night, all through the long years of the war, when he sees his father only a couple of times, and each time he leaves without saying goodbye. But Len's prayers don't deliver his father safely back to the family after the war, and without anybody explaining why, there is a divorce, and his mother remarries, to Group Captain Wilfred Corballis. Another child is born — Jeb — and they move about a lot, as families in the forces do.
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